West Virginia argus. [volume] (Kingwood, W. Va.) 1877-1946, 1887-08-11

toward Heaven and said: at comes from
thoren
Music was born i'm heaven and il will ever
have its highest throne in heaven: and want
you 10 understand that our departed friends,
who were passionately fond Of music here, are
now at the headquarters OF harmony. I
think that the grand old church tunes that
died when your grandfathers died have gone
with them 20 heaven.
Again / remark that those OF our departed
Christian friends who in this world had very
strong military spirit are now in armies Cele,-
tial and out on bloodess battle. There arc
hundreds OF people born soldiers They can
not help it. They belong TO regiments in
time OF peace. They cannot hear drum or
fife without trying 10 keep step 20 the music.
They are Christians, and when they fight they
fight on the right side. Now when these, our
Christian friends who had natural and DOW
criul military spirit, entered Heaven, they ell
tered the celestial army.
The door Of Heaven hardly opens but you
hear military demonstration. David cried
out: The chariots of God are twenty thou
sand Elisha saw tho mountains filled with
celestial cavalry. st. John said: "The
armies which are in heaven followed him on
white horses" Now, when those who had
the military spirit on earth sanctiiied entered
glory, l suppose they right away enlisted
In some heavenly campaign, they
volunteered right away. There must
needs be in Heaven soldiers with a
soldiorly spirit. There are grand parade
There must be armed escort sent out 10 bring
up from earth to Heaven those who were
more than conquerors There must bo
crusades ever being fitted out for some part
OF Gods dominion-battles, bloodleSs, groan-
less, painless. Angels of evil to DO fought
down and fought back. Other rebellious
worlds to be conquered Worlds 10 be put
to the torch. Worlds TO be saved Worlds
TO be demolished .G s Worlds to be sunk
Beside that i'm our own world tbora n 20 hot
ties for the right and against the wrong where
we must have the heavenly military That
Is what keeps US Christian reformers so buoy
ant. So few good men against so many had
men, so Few churches against so many grog-
shops, so few pure printing presses against so
many polluted printing presses, and vet we
are buoyant and courageous, because while we
know that the armies OF evil in the world are
larger i'm number than the army of the truth
there arc celestial cohorts in tho air fighting
OH our side.
have not so much faith I'm the army on
Tho ground as have in the army in the air.
y, Godl open our eyes that we may see them
The military spirits that went up from earth
to JON the military spirits before the throne
Joshua, aud Caleb, and Gideon, and David,
and samson, and the hundreds of Christian
warriors who ON earth fought with feshly
arm, and now having gone up on high arc
coming down the hills of Heaven ready to
light among the invisibes. Yonder they arc
coming, coming. Did you not hear them
as they swept byi
But what are our mathematical friends IN
do In the next worldi They found their 10y
and their delight in mathematics There was
more poetry for them in Euclid than in John
Alltoh. they We're as passionately fond of
mathematics as Plato, who wrote over his
door: Let no one enter here who Is not ac-
quainted with geometry" What are they
doing nowf They are busy with figures vet
No place i1 all the universe like Heaven for
figures. Numbers infinite, distances infinite
calculations infinite. The didatic DIR. Dick
said he really thought that the redeemed in
Heaven spent some of their time with the
higher branches of mathematics
Some 81 our transferred and transported
metaphy Sicials-What are they doing nowl
Studying the human mind, only under better
circumstances than they used to study IL
They used TO study the mind sheathed i'm the
dull human body. Now the spirit unsheathed
now they are studying the sword outside
the scabbard Have you any doubt about
what Sir William Hamilton Is doing In
Heaven, or what Jonathan Edwards Is do
ing IN Heaven, or the multitudes on earth
by the grace Of Code No difficulty in guess
ing. metaphysics, glorious metaphysics, ever
lasting metaphysics.
What are our departed Christian friends
who are explorers doing nowl Exploring
yet, but with lightning locomotion, with
vision microscopic and telescope at the same
time A continent at glance A world in
second. a planetary system in a day.
Christian John Franklin no moro in disabled
"Erebus" pushing toward the North Pole
Christian De Long no more trying to fre3
blockaded 'Jcannette" from the ice, Christian
Livingstone no more amid African malarias
trying 70 make revelation Of dark con-
tlnent; but all OF them in the twiakling of an
eve taking In that which was unapproachable
Mont Blanc scaled without alpenstock The
coral depths Of the ocean explored without a
, diving bell. The mountains unbarred and
opened without Sir Humphrey DGvy's safety
lamp.
What are Our departed fricu Is who found
their chief joy in study doing now' Studying
yet, but Instead OF few thousand volumes
on few shelves, all the volumes Of the uni
verse open before them-geologc. ornitho.o-
Eic, COuchOlOgic, botanic astronomic philO-
sophie. No more need OF Leyden Jars or
voltaic piles, or electric batteries, standing
rs they do face TO face with the facts of
tie universe.
What are the historians doing nowl Study
ing history yet, but not the history Of "A few
centuries Of our planet only but the history
OF the eternitics-whole milleniums before
Xenophon, or Herodotus, or Moses or Adam
was born. History Of one world, history Of
What are our departed astronomers doingl
Studying astronomy yet but not through the
dull lens Of earthly observatory, but with
one stroke of wing going right out 30 Jupiter
and Mars and Mercury and Saturn and Orion
and the Misunderstanding and passing
swftest comet i'm their flight. Herschel died
Christian. have you any doubt about
what Herschel Is doingf Isaac Newton died
a Christian Have YOU any doubt about
what Isaac Newton is doingi Joseph Henry
died Christian. Have you any doubt about
what Joseph Henry Is doingi They were i'm
discussion, all these astronomers cf earth,
about what the aurora bOrealis was and
none of them could guess. They know now;
they have been out there TO see for them
selves.
What are our departed Christian chemists
DOING Following out their own science,
following out and following out forever.
Since they died they have solved ten thou
sand questions which once puzzled the earthly
laboratory. They stand on the other side Of
the thin wall ~ electricity the wall that
seems 70 divide the physical from the spiritual
world, tho thin wall Of electricity, so thin the
wall that ever and anon il seems 10 be almost
broken thrOugh-brokeu through from our
side by telephone and telegTaphic apparatus,
broken through from the other side by
strange influences which mon in their ignor-
ance call spirtuaistio manifestations. All
that matter cleared Aga-siz standing
amid bis student explorers down in Brazil
coming across some great novelty i'm the
rocks, taking OF his hat and saying; "Gen-
tlemen, lot us pray we must have divine 80.
luminRuoni we want wisdom from the
Creator % study these rocks; RE made them.
bis studies forever and forever.
But what are the men OF the law, who ln
This World found their chief ioy in the legal
PROFESSIONALISM are they doing nOwi Study
ing law in a universe where everything is
controlled by law, from fight Of humming
bird o. flight Of world law not dry and hard
ana 0re1gIng, but righteous and magnificent